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Summary: Thrilling story
Review: This book is a great thriller: the blend of authors has certainly worked together, not against, the story.In a universe long after the Posleen war, a group of commandoes takes in a Darhel - a member of the hated race who knowingly betrayed humanity. The plot moves on to a race between a human and a Darhel - and it's both a toss up who the read would prefer to win and who really will. It's not a clear-cut choice either way - and isn't decided until the very end. Overall, a very enjoyable read with some moral and ethical aspects tied in to make it interesting. Strongly reccomended.
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Summary: Ringo improved.
Review: This is the first book that John Ringo has written or co-written that kept me reading all night, unable to put it aside for sleep. Normally I'm used to slowly getting through them - the plots and his writing make up for the usually-tepid characters and mediocre ideas. Perhaps it's his co-author; if there's justice in this world Williamson will be getting a Hugo next year for Freehold. I'm surprised to believe that there are reviewers who say Williamson was at fault here, and suggest that they consider reading the insides of his book and not just the back-cover blurb before commenting in future on him. It might help avoid mistakes - I'm a professional editor (copy-editor for a metropolitan newspaper), and I didn't catch one homonym error in Hero. Or more than two or three punctuation errors/typoes, which is about normal for a book of that length. A fine book, if you like action and technology without tedious expositions about how all the stuff works. Nice extrapolations of how the Posleen universe will be a few hundred years after the horsies show up on Earth. As another reviewer said, AWESOME one-liners. Good ecology, another echo of Freehold. Realistic characters. Ringo hasn't been shot at. I'm pretty sure Williamson has. You can tell in the writing. You didn't like the Posleen books, you might like this - it's different. You did like them... not a lot of similarities, but this one's better.
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